Udaipur-Chitor Railway
| Udaipur-Chitor Railway | ||
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| Line of route | ||
| Chitor to Udaipur | ||
| Gauge / mileage | ||
| Metre gauge | 67 miles (1905) 146 miles (1943) | |
| Timeline | ||
| 1895 | First section opened to traffic | |
| 1899 | Line completed | |
| c 1943 | Renamed Mewar State Railway | |
| Key locations | ||
| Presidency | Bengal | |
| Stations | Chitor, Debari, Udaipur | |
| System agency | ||
| Own agency | ||
| How to interpret this infobox | ||
Udaipur-Chitor Railway also known as Udaipur-Chitorgarh Railway and the Oodeypore-Chitor Railway
The railway was a Metre Gauge(MG) line, sponsored by the Princely Mewar State Durbar, to link Udaipur to Chitor and worked by the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway(BB&CIR) up to 31 December 1897. With effect from 1st January 1908 the maintenance and working was taken over by the Mewar Durbar. [1]
Chitor was the connection to the Rajputana-Malwa State Railway(RMSR), which, in 1900, merged into the BB&CIR
Udaipur-Chitorgarh Railway Lines
- Running Powers [2]
- Chitorgarh Station to Barach, 1.42 miles(2.3km) on the BB&CIR Metre Gauge
- Phulad Section, 0.20 miles (0.3km) on the ‘Jodhpur Railway Metre Gauge’
- Progress in Opening[2]
- ‘Barach to Debari near Udaipur Section’, 60 miles(97km), opened 1895
- ‘Chitorgarh Station’, separate station, ½ mile(0.8km), opened 1898
- ‘Debari to Udaipur Extension’, 6½ miles(8km), opened 1899
- ‘Mavli Juction to Kankroli Section’, 18 miles(29km), opened 1930 § Note
- ‘Kankroli to Khambli Ghat Section’, 47 miles(76km), opened 1932 § Note
- ‘Khambli Ghat to Phulad Junction Section’, 13 miles(21km), opened 1936 § Note
§ Note these lines are not shown on the 1909 map
The ‘Mavli-Nathdwara Branch Railway’ was proposed in 1906, a 14¾ mile(24km) branch line from Mavli Station to the pilgrimage site of Nathdwara [3]. There is no record that this line was constructed
The “Statistics of Working’ show the year-by-year financial results from 1913-14 through to 1936-37 and the total line lengths starting at 67 miles (108km) up to 1929-30 up to completion of 146 miles(235km) in 1935-36 [2]
Classification
Indian Railway Classification of 1926 - Class III railway system.
Later Development
During the Second World War, c.1943 the line became known as the Mewar State Railway.
Historical books online
- Udaipur-Chitorgarh Light Railway by G E Lillie G.C. Press [1903] Northwestern University Libraries Digitized Books. [USA] Catalogue entry Series: Technical Section papers (India. Railway Board. Technical Section) ; no. 137.
References
- ↑ "Administration Report on the Railways in India – corrected up to 31st March 1918"; Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta; page 204; Retrieved 14 Feb 2016
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 US Archive .org pdf download of ‘History Of Indian Railways, constructed and in progress’, 31 March 1937 by ‘The Government of India - Railway Department’ page 301 pdf 344; Retrieved 30 Jul 2020
- ↑ Histories of (Indian)Railway Projects ...up to June 1906 page 48; Retrieved 5 Aug 2020